"You are right," was the reply, a local colloquialism in common use, as a clincher to a closed argument or an unwelcome truth.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman
For a clincher I promised Pat that Walt and I would spend Walt's vacation with him up in the woods.
"The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp"
Thornton W. Burgess
If that was settled, that would be the clincher.
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope